What is an EPS model?

I have to create an EPS model from scratch for an interview and I have never made a model before nor have I heard of an EPS model.

I've seen DCF valuation models in excel before but what is an EPS model?

How do I make one? Any one have a template I can look at? Part of the instructions say that it is supposed to look like a net income or EPS model in stock reports.

Thanks

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It's actually much simpler than a DCF, follow the advice from PE Investor. Instead of going all the way to FCF, you stop at net income, no need to project out CAPEX and no need to discount... then barring any buybacks (that you expect) divide by weighted average shares out for basic EPS and diluted shares for diluted EPS.

FYI, this is a useless model that tells you next to nothing about the company. This is why I hate the sellside, they hock this crap off like their actually providing useful information. Note the fact that EPS figures are accounting figures that can easily be bent and have little berring on future profitability. I would recommend against telling them this, as I assume, like most independent ER firms, this is their bread and butter.

My advice: bail to the buyside as fast as humanly possible and try not to fall in with the herds while you work in ER - most of the crap they send me includes no intelligent or remotely novel thought.

 

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